*This morning on Good Morning America: Jennifer Waldburger, author of The Sleepeasy Solution: The Exhausted Parent's Guide to Getting Your Child to Sleep from Birth to Age 5 (HCI, $14.95, 9780757305603).

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

The Writers’ Trust of Canada has announced the finalists for the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. The prize will be awarded at the Politics and the Pen Gala on March 10 in Ottawa. The five finalists are:John English, Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968–2000 (Knopf Canada)Terry Gould, Murder Without Borders: Dying for the Story in the World’s Most Dangerous Places (Random House Canada)Rudyard Griffiths, Who We Are: A Citizen’s Manifesto (Douglas & McIntyre)James Maskalyk, Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-torn Village (Doubleday Canada)Daniel Poliquin, René Lévesque (Penguin Canada)

*Tomorrow morning on the Today Show: Charles Sophy and Brown Kogen, authors of Side by Side: The Revolutionary Mother-Daughter Program for Conflict-Free Communication (HarperOne, $25.99, 9780061791574).

*Tomorrow on the View: Andrew Young, author of The Politician: An Insider's Account of John Edwards's Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That Brought Him Down (Thomas Dunne, $24.99, 9780312640651

*Tomorrow night on Larry King Live: Shoshana Johnson, author of I'm Still Standing: From Captive U.S. Soldier to Free Citizen--My Journey Home (Touchstone, $23.99, 9781416567486).

*Tomorrow night on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Atul Gawande, author of The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Metropolitan Books, $24.50, 9780805091748).

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